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Col. Charles W. Anderson

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Greg Tucker

A brilliant military strategist and popular Confederate hero had a ghostwriter, and Southern city folk got their first exposure to the roots of jazz and ragtime. It was the Civil War in Middle Tennessee.Charles W. Anderson

Born in Kentucky in 1825, Charles W . Anderson came to Tennessee with his parents by steamer landing at the Nashville wharf in 1835. He attended prep school in Nashville where one of his classmates was George Maney from Rutherford County. Ending his education at 15, Anderson worked for a wholesale grocer in Nashville and developed an interest in commercial ...